Bacon Grease Oil Lamp From a Tuna Can

Not much to describe really. I ate some bacon, and had a lot of bacon grease left over, so I poured it into a tuna can. I then took the bottom of a pop can and punched a slit in it to hold a wick. The can bottom floats on the grease as a raft to hold about a quarter inch (~6 mm) of the wick above the surface of the grease. The wick I am using is only a one inch (~25 mm) length of a wick I bought in the camping section of Canadian Tire. I soaked the wick in the bacon grease before I lit it the first time.

If you do not want to use bacon grease it a lamp like this, you can use vegetable oil. Oil left over from deep frying is an especially good choice.

It takes a few seconds to get this lamp lit, because bacon grease (or veggie oil) is not as flamable as kerosine. Of course that also makes it much safer to use. If the flame in a kerosine lamp touches the kerosine, the kerosine will catch on fire, but if the flame in this lamp touches the grease (or veggie oil) the flame will just be snuffed out.